Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Thank you!

This week marks my 3-year blogiversary! And I wouldn't be here without all of you!

Thank you all for another fabulous year in this knitting community! I have loved getting to know so many of you in person and here online. I do feel so very blessed to have this community and this special group of friends! Stitches, Sock Camp, Sock Summit, SnB, Knot Hysteria.....what a fun-filled knitting year it has been!

And to celebrate, let's have a yarny giveaway! I promise it'll be a great big yarny goody prize for one lucky reader! I'll make it easy too. Just leave a comment. It can be why you love knitting blogs, what you'd like to see more of on this blog, a fabulous book you are reading, or a hot new knitting pattern you have to knit now despite the looming holiday knits list. I'll pick one lucky winner this Sunday!

Happy Blogiversary! I came across your blog about a year ago when I was knitting my FLS. A search brought me to your lovely FLS and this delightful blog. I've been with you ever since. Love your projects, your dogs, and even Notre Dame. It all feeds my spirit. Thank you.

I love knit blogs for the inspiration they provide - and yours is no exception. You choose the mose gorgeous yarns, and knit the mose beautiful projects - many of them your own patterns! Congrats on three years!

I love getting to meet new people via the knit-blogging world. It was fun to see you in person at Sock Summit. I envy your yarny trips, but it's nice to follow along on your blog. I'll second the "show me the Snowboarder!" Your nephew isn't the only cute boy in your life!

I love I think I have found a life-long passion in knitting. I have lots of hobbies which rotate between reading, cross-stitching, silk painting but knitting is so portable and very satisfying that I think I will still be knitting way into my 90s! Congratulations on the blog-a-versary!

Congratulations on your blogiversary! I've been an avid fan for a year or so and enjoy making a quick check every morning to see if there is a new entry for me to enjoy. Teaching means that I steal every little spare moment I can to enjoy relaxing with my needles, yarn, and current socks. I love the fact that you are from "the Penninsula" which makes me feel like I have a vicarious knitting friend close by. Thanks for the ideas, inspirations, and sharing of your family and friends I find on your blog. VREDE en VREUGDE Linda

Joyeux blobversary. I discovered your blog a couple of months ago and go to it every day. I love all the STR at the top - we don't see it in Europe.I also read your blog to see all the projects underway or finished. I have a lot of yarny blogs marked but yours is in the daily list.

Happy Blogiversary! I don't know if I've ever celebrated one of those...hmm, just another reason to buy yarn, right?

Speaking of yarn and knitting and such, I found you through another friend's blog and I liked what I saw. I haven't been reading very long but I know enough to know that you have cute doggies and lots of yarn porn.

But, I like knitting blogs in general because I wind up learning something or finding a cute pattern or fun yarn or someone who just happens to be having the same problem I am (which, lately, is more often than not).

And, on top of that, I like knowing that there are people out in the world, maybe not in my immediate community, that have just as much of a problem as I do (regardless of what the title of the blog is about).

Congratulations! I love knitting blogs in particular because you get to see and 'hear' how a person has altered or done a pattern. I love to see the end results and seeing the project come to life through it's own WIPs. =)

First Congratulations on your Blogiversary and because of all your wonderful projects I'm addicted to plucky now;)I'm reading "Knit The Season"I just finished Toast and Mustard Scarf in plucky for friends and a wee tiny bat for a friends little girl. I want to knit some dolls for my girls for Christmas there Dani Dolls from Amy Gaines on etsy she has wonderful fun patterns and kits too.Hugs Darcy/knottyknitter40

I stumbled over your blog a few months ago and have been a faithful follower since. Love the socks (especially the ones inspired by family) love the yarn pictures (makes me want to jump on-line and order) and love the doggies, too!!

I love knitting blogs because it feels like a huge community - no matter where in the world they are, or how different their lives are from mine, we share a common love - using two sticks to turn a string into something useful and beautiful.

Happy Blogiversary to one of my favorite bloggers. I want to tell you and the other knit bloggers how much I enjoy your blogs because I am a lone knitter and my inspiration and education comes from people like you who share your work and ideas. I especially enjoy your upbeat attitude!! Looking forward to another great year!!

happy blogiversary! I'm too far behind on my holiday gift knitting to dare dream of casting on for myself, but I have been fantasizing about knitting with my own handspun for the first time - just as soon as I finish this holiday stuff (back to work)!

Happy Blogiversary! Let's see, right now I'm halfway through the 16-button Cardigan from Simple Knits, even though I have a pair of sock and two hats I still need to knit before Christmas! After Christmas, if Santa brings me that Tatamy Tweed I put on my wishlist, I'm going to be ALL OVER the Tangled Yoke Cardigan.

Woo hoo! Happy blogiversary! I love reading other people's knitting blogs because it makes me feel like I'm not the only one... (who has a giant stash, who obsesses about a pattern or a colorway or a particular yarn...etc).

I love your blog. It is great to see (and buy) your designs so soon after you have created them - and it is a bonus you like knitting with the same types of yarn I do. Plus - it is like "knowing" a celebrity. I confess, I saw you at Stitches West this last year and was tounge-tied - I couldn't introduce myself...how silly is that?Keep up the great work!

Despite the huge Bucket'o'WIPs (tm) and the projects on the needles - and of course the massive dash to the deadline with the Christmas knitting, there is always time for reading another knitting blog - love yours! Happy Blogiversary! Long may our imaginary knitting friends from Ravelry and Blogs, turn into real friends when we finally meet them in the flesh!

Right now I *should* be reading a book for a discussion I'm leading Sunday, I really *want* to knit the turtle neck on a sweater that's almost done, but I *am* enjoying a few inspirational minutes on some of my favorite knitting blogs!

Andrea.....to answer your question. I am so sad that Charlie was fired. I completely understand why..it was inevitable. But really, I love everything he has brought to ND (including the awesome athletes that ND wasn't recruiting with Davies and Willingham, the former players as coaches, new traditions). Charlie "gets" Notre Dame and that is so important. Plus, Charlie has a daughter with autism and has done a lot for the South Bend community with Hannah and Friends (his foundation). I was really sad the past few weeks when we all knew the inevitable was going to happen.

Now that its done, c'mon Irish! I want to be back in the top 10 next year!

Happy Blogiversary. I love knitting blogs because it is like I am invited to share with someone the craft that brings happiness. To share in success and failures is truely amazing. Thank you for opening yourself up and blogging about your life. I hope there is many more years to come and I will be right here next to you reading your adventures.

Happy Blogiversary!!! I wish you many more! :) I love reading your blog - some of us were just talking about how we should either move to the South bay or move the South Bay to us, because that's where all the cool people and our favorite yarn stores are. LOL :)

Congratulations! You have brought many readers (me, included, of course) lots of interesting stories and commentaries. My two favorite pastimes are knitting and reading. I would like to share a book with everyone entitled "Still Alice". It is a very moving and informative fictional story of a vibrant, extremely intelligent and accomplished woman who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. I read it months ago and still can't get it out of my mind. I encourage you to read it.

I'm usually a quiet follower of your blog, but a contest will always bring me out of hiding! I enjoy your blog because I love the great pattern ideas and motivation I get from seeing all of your beautiful finished knits!cksknitter on ravelry

I have made many a comment on knitting blogs, but you were the first to reply to a personal email. Being a relatively new knitter (a little over a year) I can't begin to tell you how appreciative I was that you gave me encouragement and advise about a pattern that I wanted to try. I have my Shawl That Jazz done and I promise to send you a photo of it.

Simple....I love YOUR blog because of the great pictures that you post! I was an early purchaser of the Cotty pattern, and have found it to be the best sock pattern! Thanks for sharing your world with us, and Happy 3rd, hopefully many more to come!

I love knitting blogs for both the awe and the inspiration-- I have learned so much and feel encouraged to try more challenging things based on the enthusiasm and humor people so generously provide. Happy blogiversary!

Congratulations on your blogiversary Carrie! I'm really enjoying seeing all of the great things you've knit up. But I most enjoy seeing all of your wonderful knit designs. I'm anxiously awaiting your Uncle Frank hat pattern! Here's to many more years of your blog!

I love knitting blogs because.... it is like a 12 step meeting ( I imagine) letting me know I am not the only one with this obsession!I love your blog as it is great fun to read and share with someone I have met and stay in touch if only in one direction- thanks

I love seeing what you are working on, whether it's a new design of your own or something by someone else. Really, that's why I read blogs - I want to see what other people are knitting and crocheting and get ideas and inspiration.

I also love seeing your pictures of Little Guy - he's so freaking cute, and it's fun to see him growing up. OK, and that big guy Snowboarder is never a bad thing to see, either. :)